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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Batavia, NY

Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Batavia, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.

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City Safety Score 24/100 Grade D Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Is Batavia, NY safe?

Batavia, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 24 out of 100, grade D, below the New York statewide score of 46. Under 1% of its residents live in neighborhoods graded A or B, compared with 34% statewide. Safety Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates.

Safety Score
24 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
<1%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
82%
Scored neighborhoods
13

How Batavia compares

Batavia scores 22 points below the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Batavia lies in Genesee County, which has a county Safety Score of 59, grade C.

County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Batavia.

Neighborhoods inside Batavia

13 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Batavia, 13 of them mostly inside it. Among those 13, the lowest scores 1, the highest 54, and the middle 80% range from 6 to 39.

Safety Score, 0–100 · shaded band: 10th–90th percentiles · whiskers: lowest and highest

Batavia

A 0% · B 0% · C 18% · D 42% · F 40%

New York

A 17% · B 17% · C 23% · D 23% · F 21%

Estimated share of residents living in neighborhoods of each grade, in Batavia and across New York.

ZIP codes where Batavia residents live

Nearly all of Batavia's estimated residents live in ZIP 14020 (Safety Score 36, grade D). An estimated 31% of that ZIP's residents live outside Batavia, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 14020 profile.

Closest cities in New York

  1. Lancaster Safety Score 57 · grade C · 26 miles
  2. Depew Safety Score 64 · grade B · 27 miles
  3. Lockport Safety Score 42 · grade C · 28 miles
  4. Rochester Safety Score 20 · grade D · 31 miles
  5. Buffalo Safety Score 22 · grade D · 34 miles

Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.

About Batavia

Batavia has an estimated 15,071 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 5.2 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 13 scored Census block groups that lie at least partly within those limits.

How this page is built

ZIP codes are listed by the estimated share of the city's residents who live in them, from 2020 Census block-group population spread evenly over each block group's land. The city score is not an average of ZIP scores.

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Safety Scores compare areas on a 0–100 scale; higher is safer. Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates or reported incident counts.

City scores combine the scored neighborhoods that lie at least partly within city limits, weighted by their estimated residents inside the limits. They are not an average of the ZIP scores listed for a city.

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